Uganda Day 3 at the High School

The High School has changed since last year! There is a new floor and the roof is ready to be put on! There is much construction going on there. We were so happy to see some of our friends who have moved up to the High School from the primary. They have 70% that are able to move up to the High School, which is above average for Uganda schools. They have a very difficult testing system that kids must pass to go to the next grade.

Our team sanded the 4^th floor concrete walls and put the primer on the walls. Their method of construction and resources is very limited, but they are very hard workers and very innovative! They are so appreciative for anything we do and make our time with them so rewarding.

We were talking to one of the administrators and she said she had just returned from picking up a girl who hadn’t returned to school. She had graduated from the primary school at the top of her class, but her parents didn’t have the resources to send her to the high school and were not sure if they wanted her to go there since it is an hour from the primary and where they live. The administrator went to her house and brought Brenda and her father to the high school for them to see it, now that is dedication and love! When they arrived her father started crying and was so overwhelmed at the opportunity for his daughter and how caring everyone was to them! She would need sponsors, but they felt like this is where God wanted her! Someone from our team had a family member who was looking for someone to sponsor and was so happy to help and thankful to get to take a picture with Brenda and her dad! God is so amazing, He didn’t have to let us see the whole process….but He did and blessed us! Sarah and I walked off with tears in our eyes as we watched this thankful and proud daddy who is so thankful someone is giving his daughter a chance. School is her chance to not only survive in very tough conditions, but to have an education and a job to support herself one day. He was overwhelmed, as any daddy in America would be, that someone would believe in and help his daughter when he could not! That is God’s love in action.

We also passed out letters to kids from their sponsors. It was so fun telling them about their sponsors and how much they loved, sacrificed to support them and prayed for them.  We would ask them about their studies and what their best class was. They are so smart…physics, math, literature! Bob, one of friends who just moved up from the primary said he was learning so much. I asked him what he hopes to do in the future and he said he just wants to be used by God! He said he wants to help Uganda find God and stop doing such destructive things! Alex (the photographer because he always wants to use our camera to take pictures and our friend from the primary who returned this year to the high school) said he had so many talents he wasn’t sure which one God wanted him to use yet! AHHH, I agree. They are such amazing kids.

We are excited to return to the High School tomorrow for Chapel! Pray we will be a blessing to them! To quote our young friend Bob, we yearn to bless them more than they are blessing us!